Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-05-13
UBRIEN In MONTREAL.
HE ARRAlGNS CANADAS EXECUTIVE
FOR HIS CRUELTY.
Lansdowne Kissed by the Audience-Ter-
ribIe Pictures of the Woes of his Evict.
ed Tenants Trouble in his Visits
to Toronto and Kingston.

MONTREAL, May 11.-Editor O'Bren of
the United Ireland spoke to an enthusiasts
tic audience of over 2OO0 people in Albert
Hall this evening. The meeting was in
charge of the local branch of the Irish
National League. Many French Canad-
ans attended. The name of Lord Lans.
downe was Missed several times, but no
demonstration was made in or out of the
hall against the premier.
O'Brien said NE had come to Canada be
cause the homes of the poor people of
Luggacurran, far away in Ireland, are
desolate tonight, and because the man
who is responsible for it is here in the
highest post OF honor in this great, free
land.
If we came to Canada to ask Won
to befriend us and save our people
it is because this is not the first time
Canada has stood between the Irish
people and their oppressors. 1t is not
the first time you have stretched out the
broad shield of your generous sympathy
to stay the march of hunger and misgov-
eminent in Ireland, Mr.. Parnel has said
| he will never again beg the world for
aims for Irish landlordism. We are now
begging, not for aims, but to enable Us to
uproot the whole system of Irish land
|
| $40 900 for charity any more but ask YOU
to consider what Lord LansdOwne is
making of E20,000 a year which you give
| him. or which you enable HIM to get; and
if that be put to bad and inhuman use we
ask you to convey your censure of Lord
Lansdowne as you have perfect
right to do. Lansdowne is laying waste
an entire stretch of country, miles long,
us completely as if the angel of
death Knocked at every cabin door in
these valleys, and devoted every man,
woman and child to destruction. As soon
as he will have obtained his next batch of
eiectment DEGREES he will have made Il
clean sweep of the property, and except
Lord Lansdowne's own bailiffs and crea-
lures, the whole population will have been
banished and their homes will know them
no more.
O'Brien described incidents attending
some of the evictions as follows An in
| firm old woman, aged so and odd years
whose lettering steps had to be guided
out of the little homestead was put out
in a pitiless storm OF hail and snow, the
cold March blast blew around her and
the poor creature cried bitterly. Old men
over 80 were told 10 clear out. A delicate
mother with babe only a fortnight old
clasped IN her arms, stood shivering out
side while the emergency men, pitched
out her little belongings. The "emer-
gency men" were there with Sledge ham
mers, crowbars, ladders, saws and hatch
cts to pull down the house and smash the
furniture. The miserable matched cot.
tage into which the rain poured through
the root occupied by tenant named
Henry Mulhall, was entered by the sher-
if. On chair near the fire was poor
old woman VINO did not seem to realize
that she was going to be put out of the
house which had sheltered her from child
hood. She was put out on the roadside in
a pitiless storm. These are few typical
cases of hundreds of evctions that have
been going on Lansdowne's, Queens coun.
ty estates.
In closing Mr.. O'Brien said / appeal
to the people of Canada against Lans
downe's savage sentence, against the
whole peaceable population. Substantial
~ the Canadian flag tioated over the evict
ing army and 1t was Canadian money that
hired the emergency men" to do theil
dreadful work. | call upon you to free the
Canadian name from this and let Lans
downe and the world know that when Can
ada stretched out her arm to Ireland il
was not to wound or subjugate her, bu
} to save her.
: Tremendous cheering followed the close
of the speech. O'Brien will speak il
Quebec MAY II, in Kingston the 10th, To
ronto the nth and Ottawa the 10th. Lans
} downe is in Toronto to day, where he il
5 being feted and welcomed Many persons
here express the opinion that WheI
| O'Brien reaches there and again at King
! ston the Orangemen will try to raise dis
l turbancpS